Why Adult ARFID Treatment Feels Stuck — What Clinicians Are Missing in Care
A thought-provoking learning opportunity for providers ready to make important shifts that can change how stalled progress in adult ARFID care is understood and supported.
Are you noticing gaps in how we treat adult ARFID?
Adult ARFID care is often approached through frameworks that prioritize food exposure and increasing dietary variety. When progress stalls, or when individuals are unable to incorporate new foods or expand their dietary variety at the expected pace, clinicians are frequently encouraged to intensify exposure or interpret limited change as a lack of motivation.
Yet many providers working with adults quickly discover that these explanations do not fully account for what is happening in the therapeutic process. When intervention models are experienced as overwhelming, rigid, or misaligned with a person’s lived experience, the work of eating can become even less accessible!
This course is for providers who are noticing these patterns and are ready to explore new ideas and tools to support adults with ARFID.
Recording available for 60 days after registration.
Open to professionals across disciplines
Speaker: Naureen Hunani, RD
We want to help you feel more confident supporting adults with ARFID when progress stalls—so you can move beyond exposure-only models and better understand the factors that may be keeping treatment stuck.
About the Speaker
Naureen Hunani is a neurodivergent dietitian with over 18 years of clinical experience and the founder of RDs for Neurodiversity. Based in Montreal, Canada, she supports neurodivergent people of all ages navigating feeding and eating challenges, including ARFID. Naureen is also a clinical supervisor and speaker, sharing her expertise with clinicians and organizations committed to more affirming models of care.
Her work is grounded in an intersectional, justice-oriented lens—recognizing how neurodivergence, disability, culture, identity, and systemic oppression shape people’s feeding experiences and access to support. She is a strong advocate for the early identification of feeding differences and for increasing inclusion, acceptance, and safety in all feeding environments.
Naureen has presented at national and international conferences, and in November 2023 received the Nothing About Us Without Us Award from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. She is passionate about supporting pro-justice, HAES®-aligned professionals in building more liberatory, accessible, and neurodiversity-affirming practices.